"Brother, you're fine."
The girl was dressed in a red outfit, smiling and looking slim.
Xiao Huaiyu chatted with him with a smile. Hearing her joke that he was "tall and handsome," she scolded him with a smile: "No big, no small." But the hands behind his back were clenched so tightly that they turned white and trembled.
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Meng'an has been away from home for many years, so when she returns to Beijing, she naturally wants to honor her parents and show her filial piety. In the afternoon I spent time with the old lady and my grandmother, and in the afternoon I stayed with my mother, telling interesting stories about what I had seen outside the Great Wall over the years.
The lonely smoke in the desert, the camel convoy, the ruins of the ancient dynasty... The girl's eyes were full of energy.
Xiao Huaiyu often came to the First Assistant's Mansion. In the past few days, he rushed over immediately after going to court to deal with court affairs. Whenever the girl talked about what he had seen and heard outside these years, he would look at her profile with a smile. , handing over a cup of tea from time to time.
When Xihe saw it, he shook his head: It's over, it's over, there's no hope.
It's just that there are too many facts in the court, and even if Xiao Huaiyu speeds up, he will always be busy until late at night.
Everything was quiet. Except for the watchman and the patrolling guards, all the princes, nobles and common people in the capital had fallen asleep. No matter how helpless he was, he couldn't disturb Meng Ao again in the chief minister's palace.
But as an emperor, he is not the kind of person who would wrong him.
Xihe saw that he was too busy for the past few days and would not come to the house. However, before he could relax, he saw him coaxing Meng Ao.
The spring breeze brings warmth, and the water around the lake pavilion in Shouxing Mansion is rippling.
Xihe was strolling around with his maid when he suddenly saw Xiao Huaiyu and Meng Juan sitting opposite each other in the pavilion. She had good eyesight and ears, and saw the emperor's sad eyes from a distance: "I am the only one in this huge palace, and it is really cold."
A serious person on weekdays, but today he acted pitiful.
Xihe sneered in his heart, brat, are you enlightened, are you planning to take action?
"Ah! Brother, why didn't you tell me earlier?" Meng Ao screamed when she heard this.
Xiao Huaiyu felt happy, thinking that the little girl had guessed what he was thinking.
"Father and mother have been worried about my eldest brother's marriage for a long time. Miss Jingzhong looked at me and knew that if I had known that my eldest brother was so impatient, I would have asked the etiquette department to handle your wedding!" He stood up and grabbed the eldest brother, "Let's go, let's go with my mother. Say it!"
Xiao Huaiyu:? ? ?
Xihe was stunned for a moment, then almost laughed.
Is this called one thing reducing another thing? No matter how scheming Xiao Rebellion is, he can't do anything when faced with an inexperienced person like Meng Ao.
Seeing that the two of them were chatting with each other, it was difficult to communicate. Xihe was afraid that he would laugh out loud and hurriedly took the maid away from the lake. However, he didn't know what Xiao Huaiyu said to Meng Ao later. After dinner, the little girl said Enter the palace and stay for a few days.
Xihe: "..."
He stopped his chopsticks and looked at the tall young man who looked like a young man.
Xiao Huaiyu's eyes widened, and his face became kind and friendly: "Don't worry, mother, my son will take good care of your son." As he spoke, he spontaneously picked up a piece of her favorite chicken wing for the little girl with the chopsticks in his hand, with a natural expression. .
Meng'an didn't even raise her head, and she ate even more cheerfully.
Such a scene made Xihe's teeth sore, and he hurriedly said: "Go ahead, go ahead." Don't be an eyesore.
The eunuch was quick with his hands and feet. As soon as the dinner was finished, Meng'an's things were packed away. As soon as Fang finished eating, the group of people drove away in a majestic carriage.
According to Meng'an, the eldest brother still has a memorial to read, so he can't delay it too late.
Xihe looked at his father-in-law and was speechless.
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As soon as Meng Afu entered the palace, she felt the thoughtfulness of her eldest brother. She was rich in silks and satins, and delicacies. She ate the off-season fruits that were hard to find for others. The eldest brother even opened a private treasury for her to use.
She slept until she woke up naturally every day, and the palace people tried different ways to make her happy every day, and everything went well.
The eldest brother would come back to eat with her after attending court every day. If he was correcting memorials, she could watch from the sidelines, or she could take the palace maids to the imperial garden or the various palaces.
It's just that in the entire palace, except for the Queen Mother and the several princesses who have not yet left the palace, Xiao Huaiyu only has one master.
She wandered around and found that some palaces were covered with grass. As her elder brother said, they were really desolate. Thinking about this, she felt more and more that she should find a sister-in-law for her elder brother.
"go back!"
He stopped wandering around and hurried back to the palace with his skirt in hand.
It was mid-afternoon, and Xiao Huaiyu usually read some leisurely books in the Imperial Study Room. Meng Ao rushed to the Imperial Study Room excitedly and shouted before she even entered the door: "Brother, I have something to tell you..."
Fang stepped into the main hall and in a blink of an eye he saw a woman lying beside his eldest brother's bed, disheveled.
Meng A was so shocked that her eyes bulged out, and she subconsciously turned around and ran away. At this moment, the emperor woke up leisurely and saw the little girl running away. He opened his mouth and shouted: "娨..."
Suddenly feeling something was wrong, he raised his head and saw the shy and red face of the woman beside the couch.
Xiao Huaiyu's face sank, he kicked the person away, then stood up and chased him out.
All the palace maids and eunuchs in this room suddenly saw Miss Meng running out with her face covered. They were about to shout, but their Majesty hurriedly chased after her: "娨儿!"
The two of them were in front of each other, looking in the direction that should be Miss Meng's bedroom.
They were thinking about whether to chase after them when a woman's cry of pain suddenly came from the hall. When they went in, they saw that it was a disheveled palace maid.
Everyone's expressions changed: Something bad is going on! !
Meng Ao ran back to the hall, ignored the surprised look in her eyes, closed the door and got under the quilt.
She covered her face and her ears were red and bleeding. She didn't know why she was so unlucky to encounter such a thing? Just when I thought this, I heard the voice of my eldest brother coming from outside the door.
"娨儿, are you in there? I have something to tell you."
Meng'an was anxious: "I don't want it, you go back!"
Xiao Huaiyu: "Things are not what you think. Can you let me in?"
Meng'an thought to herself, you are intimate with the palace maid and want to get a wife, what are you telling me? Refuse again: "Brother, please go and do some work first, don't worry about me."
After the words fell, there was no sound outside the door. She was just relieved when the door opened and someone walked in the next second.
Meng Juan:! ! !
Cover yourself with the quilt and curl up into a ball.
She felt someone sitting next to her, and a hand fell on the quilt: "I just fell asleep while reading. It was the palace maid who put the blame on me. I didn't do anything to her." Pulling her quilt, "Don't cover it." Don’t be out of breath.”
Meng Ao paused and said, ah, is the palace maid getting distracted?
She was inadvertently taken over by Xiao Huaiyu, and the quilt was easily taken off, revealing her dazed little face, her temples were pushed askew, and a few strands of hair fell on her face.
Xiao Huaiyu naturally helped the little girl up: "If you don't believe it, you can judge it yourself when people come."
Meng Ao waved her hands hurriedly: "Brother, you can do this yourself."
Unexpectedly, Xiao Huaiyu's face showed grievance: "Aren't you worried that the palace maid is pretending to be an enemy and poisoning me?"
How could Meng Ao respond to this? Immediately ignoring the embarrassment just now, he hurriedly ordered the palace maid to call the imperial doctor, and turned around to check Xiao Huaiyu up and down, fearing that he was actually fed poison.
Seeing how nervous she was, Xiao Huaiyu's heart dropped and he held her hand: "I'm fine, I was just assuming."
Meng A:? ? ?
Meng Ao looked at him speechlessly.
After a while, the palace servants twisted the disheveled maid into the hall and threw her on the ground: "Your Majesty, we have brought her here."
Meng Ao immediately looked towards the palace maid. When she was in the imperial study room, the palace maid had her back turned to her, so she did not see the girl's true appearance. The palace maid slowly raised her head, revealing a face that was familiar to Meng A:
"Wan'er?!"
It turned out to be Xie Waner, whom I hadn't seen for a long time.
Xie Wan'er didn't look at her, but looked at the emperor who was above him. She shed tears before saying a word: "Your Majesty~"
Meng Ao looked left and right, full of questions. She wanted to ask how she became a palace maid, and what happened in the royal study just now? But Xie Wan'er didn't look at her, only the emperor was in his eyes.
"Your Majesty, Wan'er is devoted to you, why don't you want to look back?"
"Wan'er left a good official lady to the palace instead of entering the palace, just because she wanted to be closer to you. Seeing this infatuation, you should just take pity on Wan'er and take her in!" She turned around and begged Meng Ae, "Wan'er, Wan'er has nothing to ask for in this life. I only hope to find a place beside His Majesty. Please help me."
Meng Ao was immediately at a loss and looked at Xiao Huaiyu: "Brother..."
Xiao Huaiyu's face turned cold: "Pull him out!"
Several eunuchs immediately stepped forward, blocked Xie Wan'er's mouth, and dragged the person out regardless of her struggle.
Meng A still couldn't come to her senses. She and Xie Wan'er had known each other for a long time, but she really didn't expect that she would have such thoughts about her eldest brother. She didn't know what to say for a while. After just getting to know each other, she couldn't help but say: "Brother, Wan'er may not have meant it..."
He met Xiao Huaiyu's cold and ruthless eyes and stopped talking.
Xiao Huaiyu looked at the little girl: "I don't care about her at all. If it weren't for your sake, even ten heads wouldn't be enough to chop her off like she did today. What's more, the imperial study room is heavily guarded, but she can actually Getting in easily shows the scheming and means."
"She has no bad intentions today. If she wants to kill me one day, how should I protect myself?"
Meng Ao was shocked, she had forgotten this.
Xiao Huaiyu: "Her life or mine, how do you choose, Con'er?"
"Of course it's you!"
Meng Ao didn't even think about it.
Xiao Huaiyu smiled and his eyes were extremely soft: "I knew that I was in your heart."
Meng Ao met his focused eyes, and for some reason her heart beat like thunder suddenly, and she quickly avoided the scorching gaze.
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Xihe only found out about this later, and she never expected that the heroine, who had not been heard from for so long, would actually enter the palace and try to seduce Little Rebel.
As a result, he was kicked out of the palace and had two ribs broken. He was kicked out of the palace that day.
It is said that after the people in the Xie Mansion found out, they were afraid of being implicated and did not let her into the house. They quickly sent her to Taohua Temple outside the city and did not dare to let her out again!
Xihe shook his head and sighed that he would not survive for his own sins, so he put the matter aside and turned to focus on his daughter and Xiaotei.
Since Meng Juan came back this time, Xiao Huaiyu seemed to have had an enlightenment and began to occupy every aspect of the little girl's life intentionally or unintentionally, hoping that the little girl would always think of him.
It was just the incident of Xie Wan'er in the palace that finally made the little girl realize the difference between men and women from her eldest brother.
He reluctantly stayed in the palace for two days, and soon returned to his home as if he was running away.
As soon as she came back, Xiao Huaiyu came with all the burdens.
Xihe: "..."
(End of chapter)
